Psychology / Unit 9 Psych 1043 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Eustress and Distress
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The idea
Eustress is stress appraised as challenging and manageable; distress is stress appraised as threatening and beyond one's resources.
In practice
The same competition produces eustress in a prepared athlete and distress in an unprepared one.
Where people slip
The physiological response is largely shared. Appraisal is what separates the two.
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